Title: Associate Professor and Director of WritingDepartment: English
Research Fields of Interest: Civic Rhetoric, Computers and Writing, Undergraduate Research, Veteran Studies
Degrees: B.A., The University of Rochester; Ph.D., The University of Georgia

Chapters in books

With Mariana Grohowski, “Leveraging the Power of the Web for Work: Female Veterans’ Online Efforts to Combat Unemployment.” Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates EntrepreneurialOpportunities. Ed. Carol Smallwood. (2015).

“Undergraduate Research Journals: Why and How?” How to Start an Undergraduate Research Journal. Ed. D. Alexis Hart. Council on Undergraduate Research (2012). With Ron Balthazor, Christy Desmet, Sara Steger, and Robin Wharton.

“Teaching Citizen Soldiers: Civic Rhetoric and the Intersections of Theory and Practice at the Virginia Military Institute.” Military Culture and Education. Ed. Douglas Higbee. Ashgate Press (2011).

With Christy Desmet, Robert Cummings, and William Findlay.“Performing the Personal in On-Line Writing Classes.” Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing. Ed. Jonathan Alexander and Marcia Dickson. Hampton Press (2006).

Journal articles

With Roger Thompson. “Veterans in the Writing Classroom: Three Programmatic Approaches to Facilitate the Transition from the Military to Higher Education.” College Composition and Communication. (December 2016) Winner of the Richard Braddock Memorial Award 2017

Awards

Richard Braddock Memorial Award 2017: presented to the author(s) of the outstanding article on writing or the teaching of writing in the CCCC journal, College Composition and Communication (CCC) during the year ending December 31 before the annual CCCC Convention.